Hawk-watchers have always been a bit crazy. Today we proved it again by watching all day at Conneaut with the temperature about 38, and the wind chill must have been in the teens. But the wind was from the south and it didn't rain -despite the 70-80% prediction. We found shelter on the north side of a building since the wind blew over scopes and made it very difficult to hold binocs steady. We were glad to see that when hawks and vultures have been bottled up for weeks, they will definitely move in cold weather with a south wind and no rain. Turkey Vulture 1826 Bald Eagle 1 N. Harrier 15 Sharp-shinned 47 Cooper's 6 N. Goshawk 1 Red-shouldered 111 Red-tailed 98 Rough-legged 4 A. Kestrel 35 Merlin 1 Leroy Schlabach, Leon Miller, Bruce Glick at the park on the west side of Conneaut, near the Pennsylvania border Bruce Bruce Glick [log in to unmask] Millersburg, Ohio --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]